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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

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